Word Meanings – Worksheets
Worksheet One
This worksheet accompanies slides 7–8 of Word Meanings.ppt
Prefixes
Work out the meaning of each prefix below by looking at the examples given, writing one more example below them and thinking about what they all have in common.
Choose the correct prefixes for each word described below (not necessarily
from the ones above) and write them in the spaces provided.
1. ____relevant
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘not relevant’.
2. ____understood
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘incorrectly understood’.
3. ____patient
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘not patient’.
4. ____appear
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘appear again’.
5. ____legal
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘not legal’.
6. ____cover
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘reveal’.
7. ____frost
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘thaw’ or ‘remove frost’.
8. ____accurate
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘not accurate’.
9. ____mature
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘too early’.
10. ____sense
Adding this prefix will make the word mean ‘rubbish’.
Worksheet Two
This worksheet accompanies slide 9 of Word Meanings.ppt
Suffixes
Fill in the table below to see the different changes that occur when the different suffixes are added to the words listed. The suffixes that belong in the column
on the left are written below.
|stem + word class |suffix |new meaning |new word class |other examples |
|drive (verb) | |someone who drives | | |
|do (verb) | |able to be done | | |
|danger (noun) | |harmful | | |
|sad (adjective) | |unhappiness | | |
|colour (noun) | |full of colour | | |
|quick (adjective) | |in a quick manner | | |
|entertain (verb) | |amusement | | |
|cruel (adjective) | |cruel behaviour | | |
|damn (verb) | |condemnation | | |
|intense (adjective) | |to become more intense | | |
|symbol (noun) | |to be a symbol for | | |
Worksheet Three
This worksheet accompanies slide 10 of Word Meanings.ppt
Prefixes and suffixes
Write the correct prefixes and suffixes in the spaces provided so that the characters make sense!
Now write three sentences containing as many prefixes and suffixes as you can.
1. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Worksheet Four
This worksheet accompanies slides 12–13 of Word Meanings.ppt
Stems/roots
Fill in the table below with the Classical word stems, their meanings and some
examples of their presence in English words.
|Word Stem |Meaning |Examples |
|‘-scrib-’ or ‘-script-’ | |scribe, scribble, script, describe, description, prescribe, prescription, |
| | |subscribe, subscription |
|‘populus’ | |population, (un)popular, populate, popularity, popularize, populist |
|‘-dict-’ |‘say’ | |
Pick three words that you do not know the meanings of that contain the roots ‘-port-’ (‘to carry’), ‘-tract-’ (‘to pull, drag, draw’) and ‘-path-’ (‘feeling, suffering’), and write them below. Try to guess their meanings and then check with your teacher to learn their actual meanings.
Word containing ‘-port-’ (‘to carry’): _________________________________
Guessed meaning: ________________________________________________
Actual meaning: __________________________________________________
Word containing ‘-tract-’ (‘to pull, drag, draw’): ________________________
Guessed meaning: ________________________________________________
Actual meaning: __________________________________________________
Word containing ‘-path-’ (‘feeling, suffering’): _________________________
Guessed meaning: ________________________________________________
Actual meaning: __________________________________________________
Worksheet Five
This worksheet accompanies slide 16 of Word Meanings.ppt
Connotations
Connotations are the ideas or feelings that words evoke that may be in addition to their meanings. Below is a list of words. Write either ‘+’ or ‘-’ next to each one depending on whether they have positive or negative connotations.
disease _______
scandal _______
ecstatic _______
free _______
respect _______
revulsion _______
distress _______
execute _______
success _______
vibrant _______
forgive _______
theft _______
Now think of three more words with positive connotations and three more with
negative.
Positive: ___________________ Negative: ___________________
___________________ ___________________
___________________ ___________________
Worksheet Six
This worksheet accompanies slide 17 of Word Meanings.ppt
Written and spoken language
Some words have more formal connotations than others. Because spoken language is usually more informal than written language, this means that the words with more formal connotations are also usually associated with written language. Circle the words below that you are most likely to come across in written language.
|cool |good |
|yes |yeah |
|television |telly |
|mate |friend |
|thank you |cheers |
|money |dosh |
|daddy |father |
|kids |children |
Think of three more pairs of synonymous formal and informal words/phrases:
_____________________ _____________________
_____________________ _____________________
_____________________ _____________________
Now write three sentences using each of the formal words you wrote above.
1. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Worksheet Seven
This worksheet accompanies slide 21 of Word Meanings.ppt
Context
The meanings of many words are dependent on the contexts in which they are found. Read the sentences below and then define the highlighted word in two ways according to the contexts it is in.
Window (1): ____________________________________________________
Window (2): ____________________________________________________
Organ (1): ______________________________________________________
Organ (2): ______________________________________________________
Brief (1): _______________________________________________________
Brief (2): _______________________________________________________
Monitor (1): _____________________________________________________
Monitor (2): _____________________________________________________
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-ness
-er
-ful
-able
-ly
-ous
-ize, -ise
-ment
-ation
-ify
-ty
unnatural
uncertain
undressed
unknown
__________________
un- = _____________
cooperative
correspond
coexist
coincidence
__________________
co- = _____________
post-date
postgraduate
post-mortem
postscript (P.S.)
__________________
post- = ____________
mistake
mislay
misbehave
misshapen
__________________
mis- = ____________
exit
exhale
export
exterior
__________________
ex- = _____________
multi-task
multicultural
multicoloured
multimillionaire
__________________
multi- = ___________
antidepressant
anticlockwise
antibiotic
Antichrist
__________________
anti- = ____________
reconstruct
recycle
reclaim
reassure
__________________
re- = ______________
bicycle
bisexual
binoculars
bilingual
__________________
bi- = ______________
preview
prehistoric
presuppose
preschool
__________________
pre- = _____________
The team are play____ in a ____play lat____ and my teach____ say____ he’ll make me ____captain.
I made the ____take of giv____ Megan an invite____ to my party but she brought that ____accept____, hate____ spider!
Forget________ (two suffixes) is an ____bear____ habit!
It’s ____sane that the govern____ don’t stop the big companies kill____ harm____ animal____ for oil.
I broke a window playing football yesterday.
If you click on the icon in the corner of your screen, it should bring up a window telling you what to do.
I think I’d like to learn to play the organ…
Your skin is the largest organ in your body.
I can’t talk for long so I’ll just be brief…
My teacher didn’t like the design brief I wrote for Technology.
Mrs Thomson is going to be our exam monitor today.
My computer monitor’s going to cost nearly £100 to fix after Tom spilt juice on it.
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